Southern Stars Skywire Lightning Serial Telescope Controller

The Southern Stars Skywire Lightning Serial Telescope Controller is designed to turn your iPhone into a 21st-century telescope controller.

This accessory adds an RS-232 port to your iPhone, iPad, or iPod Touch - and lets it connect directly to the serial port on your telescope.

It is simple to use and doesn't require batteries - it's powered by the phone, and consumes almost no power when not in use.

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Southern Stars Skywire Lightning Serial Telescope Controller

The Southern Stars Skywire Lightning Serial Telescope Controller is designed to turn your iPhone into a 21st-century telescope controller! This accessory adds an RS-232 port to your iPhone, iPad, or iPod Touch - and lets it connect directly to the serial port on your telescope. It is simple to use and doesn't require batteries - it's powered by the phone, and consumes almost no power when not in use.

iOS Device Compatibility

The new SkyWire Lightning supports the following iOS devices:

iPhone 5, 5S, 5C

iPad (4th generation and later), iPad Mini

iPod touch (5th generation and later)

Telescope Compatibility

SkyWire can connect to any telescope with a standard RS-232 serial interface.

Meade LX-200 Classic and GPS

Meade LX-90, ETX, LXD, LX-400 ACF with AutoStar #497 controllers

Meade Magellan I and II

Celestron NexStar 5i/8i, GPS, SLT, SE

Celestron CG5, CGE, CGEM, CPC, AVX

Orion Sirius, Atlas, SkyView Pro, SkyQuest XTg

SkyWatcher mounts with SynScan controllers

Takahashi Temma 2

ServoCAT, Argo Navis, Sky Commander, Losmandy DSC

Astro-Physics GTO, Losmandy Gemini, Vixen SkySensor 2000

Tangent Instruments BBox, JMI NGC-MAX, Celestron AstroMaster

Lumicon SkyVector, Takahashi Super Navigator, Dave Ek Box

Orion Intelliscope, Orion SkyWizard

Note:SkyWire will not work with Android devices. It is was designed for, and is exclusively compatible with, iOS devices.